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Looking more closely, that trading action was mostly from investors selling, as one would imagine when an asset plummets 20% in a week.
Indeed, more than $434 million exited various US-based crypto funds yesterday, according to SoSoValue.
BlackRock’s fund made up roughly 40% of that, followed by Fidelity’s Bitcoin fund.
Data for other funds paint an equally frantic picture.
CoinShares analyst James Butterfill reported that crypto products recorded $18.5 billion in trading volume on thursday – the largest ever.
Today, Bitcoin trades at roughly $67,400 after briefly falling below $60,000 on some trading platforms early Friday morning.
And with the latest price action, the $1.3 trillion cryptocurrency officially gave up all its gains since the beginning of 2024. Bitcoin wasn’t the only cryptocurrency to fall.
Ether fell below $2,000 on Thursday, while other leading altcoins posted crashes of more than 20% this past week.
The reasons are myriad, and unlike previous crashes, don’t hinge on the collapse of a large centralised exchange or a depegging stablecoin.
In fact, it looks a lot like general market skittishness stemming from weak US jobs data.
“It is likely a mix of tech equities being over extended while Bitcoin is failing its ‚safe-haven’ test and being very sensitive to risk asset pricing,” Kaiko analyst Laurens Fraussen told DL News.
He added that bitcoin will likely trade between $60,000 and $70,000 temporarily.
“The silver lining right now is that most of the aggressive selling is likely done,” Fraussen said.